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Enterprise COBOL should support zHyperLink

IBM's zHyperLink technology offers a way to radically improve the performance for I/O to VSAM files. Performance improvements of orders of magnitude are possible with zHyperLink. On a system with zHyperLink and with an otherwise qualifying environ...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Missing Replacement-String in COPY REPLACING should be flagged

When using:COPY Bookname REPLACING abcd BY wxyz and there is an typing error in operand-1 (here: "abcd") and so no replacement has been done, it should be an compiler message (informational) with a hint like "No Replacement done".It also should be...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Flag uninitialized but used Variables

The compiler should flag Fields, which are used, but not initialized
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Delivered

Allow JSON PARSE to process anonymous table objects

Allow the ability to parse a JSON string that contains an anonymous table object.Currently unless the table object is named parsing fails.Could expand the NAME OMITTED Clause to allow this.
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Performance-critical Statements (with extra generated Code by Compiler) should be flagged

When compiling a program with OPTIMIZE, the compiler should flag performance-critical statements and expressions.The Compiler-Program "knows" when to insert extra code for number converting,so it could give a hint to the Programmer, such as an "In...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Delivered

XML System Services in z/OS 2.1 XML fragement parsing for COBOL 4.2

There have been changes made to the XML System Services in z/OS 2.1 for XML fragment parsing which is exploited by COBOL v5.1. We would like these changes to the compiler leveraging the XML System Services changes for COBOL 4.2 to take advantage o...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

User-Defined Functions in Mainframe COBOL

The mainframe COBOL compilers support the use of intrinsic functions through the use of the FUNCTION keyword, e.g., in the MOVE statement. Examples: MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO CUR-DATETIME.MOVE FUNCTION LOWER-CASE(EMAIL-ADDRESS) TO EMAIL-ADDRES...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

COBOL should allow generation of a JSON document without a "top level parent name"

JSON documents are not required to have a "top level parent name". The Enterprise COBOL JSON PARSE feature has an option "NAME <name> IS OMITTED" that allows for parsing one of these so-called "anonymous" JSON objects. However, there is curr...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

SSRANGE with Warning Option

With RFE 78190 SSRANGE was enhanced for ZeroLength-Moves (SubOption ZLEN).The Problem of an ABEND is: The Test is immediately stopped.Would it be an option for giving a Message at Runtime (Not the default option),so after a whole test run we could...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Delivered

Cobol V6R2 - Conflict between INITCHECK and OPTIMIZE(0)

The new Cobol V6R2 INITCHECK compile option is conflicting with OPTIMIZE(0) compile option : IGYOS4021-W The "INITCHECK" option was discarded due to option conflict resolution. The "OPTIMIZE(0)" option took precedence. Even if internally there can...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

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